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Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stop-saying-that dept.

prostoalex writes "If you're launching a new blog into the blogosphere, does the common netiquette allow you to have a separate wiki to go with a blog? If the previous sentence irritated you, you're not alone. Folksonomy, blogosphere, blog, netiquette and blook are among the most hated Internet words, Lulu Blooker Prize research found."

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  1. The list by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    To save you the trouble of Reading TFA, here they are:

    10. Chump.
    9. Chumpette.
    8. Yours.
    7. Up.
    6. Pimpmobile.
    5. Bite.
    4. My.
    3. Shiny.
    2. Blogosphere.
    1. Ass.

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    1. Re:The list by heptapod · · Score: 5, Funny

      So pretty much any term used at BoingBoing???

    2. Re:The list by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mashup comes from the underground music scene. It's when people download two copyrighted pieces of music which required lots of musical ability to produce and mix them together ironically on their Mac (which requires a hell of a lot less ability) and then generously donate the result to the Creative Commons.

      Actually, that reminds me of my least favourite word, digerati. It's the blogosphere equivalent of the popular group in an American high school. Annoyingly it's usually used by socially well connected Web 2.0 types who have little talent or idea about the underlying technology.

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    3. Re:The list by krelian · · Score: 5, Funny

      I cant think of any words spawned by the internet which I really dislike but one internet phenomena that irritates me are people who reply to the first comment just to get their post near the top even though they have no intention to actually reply to the parent.

    4. Re:The list by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, 'mashup' is a word used in Jamaica and some other former British colonies in Britain.

      I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....

      What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London.

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    5. Re:The list by Dal+Platinum · · Score: 5, Funny

      Luxury.

      I had to write my first blog by hand.

      In binary.

      And then take a sack full of paper two towns over, barefoot, to have it moderated.

      Getting your post flamed back then was a whole different story.

      sigh.

  2. FP by JEGSYDAU · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG PONIEZ First post.... Now THAT's annoying.

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  3. Top of the list... by bennomatic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdotted!

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  4. Re:Not the first post! by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortune for you!

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  5. Re:Wired's Memes by funkify · · Score: 5, Funny

    Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.

    Of course, that's a perfectly cromulent word.